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...book. But the minimal transitions that are attempted lack the barest suggestion of originality. It just so happens, for instance, that Grand is an avid TV-watcher, and his propensity to change channels lets Southern smuggle in random bits about a disguised puma that eats its competition at a silk-stocking New York dog show and two gnarled heavyweight contenders who prance to the center of the ring, embrace, and writhe down to the canvas moaning passionately. And the cruise aboard the Magic Christian pleasure liner inexplicably disintegrates into a freak orgy that gives werewolves, midgets, body-cultists, and gorillas...
Dressed in tri-corner hat, colonial waistcoat, knee knickers, and silk stockings, Curtis expounded on the horrors of the British armed occupation : "our beauteous virgins exposed to all the insolence of unbridled passion. and our virtuous wives falling a sacrifice to worse than brutal violence...
...surprising that most reviewers have talked about Jane Fonda to the exclusion of everything and everyone else in They Shoot Horses. Yet, the rest of the cast, in far less meaty roles, cannot be faulted. Michael Sarrazin, as Gloria's partner, and Susannah York, as a peroxide blonde, silk-gowned contestant hoping to be discovered by film directors, are relentlessly pathetic in their non-aggressive acceptance of their fate. So are Red Buttons, as a war veteran who hasn't found an inroad back to society in the 14 years since armistice, and Bonnie Bedilia, as a pregnant contestant hoping...
Lyons is home for good around 2:30. In pajamas, Japanese silk robe and needlepoint slippers, he writes his column in about two hours: a Post messenger has been waiting in the lobby. And so to bed. At noon, Lyons wakes up and hits the floor running...
...label grows more threadbare by the month. In fact, Lindsay has been a man without a party ever since last spring's New York mayoral primaries, when the Republicans denied him their nomination. Lindsay, the urbanist out of St. Paul's, Yale and Manhattan's silk-stocking district, ran for re-election as an Independent and a Liberal Party candidate. Now he presides over a city hall aswarm with Democrats, Kennedyites and peaceniks...